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Through love, through friendship, a heart lives more than one life.

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Anais Nin
Age: 73 †
Born: 1903
Born: February 21
Died: 1977
Died: January 14
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Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell
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The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
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In creation alone there is the possibility of perfection.
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Anxiety is love's greatest killer, because it is like the stranglehold of the drowning.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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Then at certain moments I remember one of his words and I suddenly feel the sensual woman flaring up, as if violently caressed. I say the word to myself, with joy. It is at such a moment that my true body lives.
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... America is the greatest humiliator in existence. It is always cultivating the power you get from humiliating others.
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Innocence was gone from all our acts. Our habitual state of rebellion became a serious political crime.
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The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive.
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Perfection is static, And I am in full progress.
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There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene, as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses, helplessness, despair, and present to the world only a smile, an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest.
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she acquired the certainty of the expansion of time by depth of emotion, range and infinite multiplicity of experience.
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Poetry is the alchemy which teaches us to convert ordinary materials into gold.
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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection.
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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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Houses turn to corpses overnight when we cease to live and love in them.
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I don't mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated
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We see things the way we are, not the way they are.
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How well I know with what burning intensity you live. You have experienced many lives already, including several you have shared with me- full rich lives from birth to death, and you just have to have these rest periods in between.
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A trite word is an overused word which has lost its identity like an old coat in a second-hand shop. The familiar grows dull and we no longer see, hear, or taste it.
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